BROADEN DRUG TESTING

If Florida Gov. Rick Scott and the Republicans want to require drug
testing for people who take public money, why draw the line at the
welfare rolls ("Drug testing of welfare applicants a GOP fishing expedition")?

Why not, as one member of the Alabama state legislature has
suggested, require drug testing for state legislators and recipients
of federal money? That should include chief executive officers who
receive taxpayer-funded bailouts and government subsidies, state and
federal contractors and -- best of all -- the lawmakers who enact
these blatant violations of Fourth Amendment rights.

I'll bet the farm that they won't be so warm to these draconian
proposals once they find that they are not only subject to the same
laws that they pass on their own constituents, but they also likely
will be forced to defund the same special interest groups that fund
their re-election campaigns.

Doug Tauber; Valencia, Calif.